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Introduction to Subcultural Anthropology: Kogal
Even disregarding the sense having to do with bacteria, there are many definitions of “subculture.” The longest that I’ve found is that of the The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural...
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Brightwell’s Top 10: 1972
In 1857, Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville patented his invention for recording sound, the phonautograph. Twenty years later, in 1877, someone first realized that his phonautograms could also...
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Those Useless Trees – El Pino Famoso
Angelenos are known for their obsessions with celebs and without a doubt, one of the hottest trees on the landscape today is “El Pino Famoso,” also known (because its fame is implicit) as “El Pino.”...
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Eurodisco Legends Joy Are Coming to Orange County!
Austrian Eurodisco group Joy are scheduled to perform live in Santa Ana on 5 December Saint Nicholas Eve/Krampusnacht) at the Yost Theater. They will perform hits including “Touch By Touch,” “Hello,”...
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Mist & Iron — Visiting Radio Hill
If you can’t see the forest for the trees, Los Angeles might only seem like an exclusively horizontal city. The fact of the matter is, however, that no city on earth has greater difference in...
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An Introduction to Sea Vegetables
When people find out that I’m vegetarian, about half of them ask me whether or not I eat seafood. I usually reply that I do, as I eat sea vegetables. Most are confused by this response for several...
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They Sing Sea Songs Down by the Seashore — Vegetarian Sea Shanties of a Sort
Their Only Harvest by Colin Hunter (1879) In addition to my guide to sea vegetables, here’s a companion piece/guide to modern day sea shanties by vegetarian (or former vegetarian, in some cases)...
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The Ultimate One Album Wonders Directory
The vinyl LP was introduced by Columbia Records in 1948 but the 45 inch single remained the primary media for recorded music until 1966, when LPs overtook them, marking the dawn of the Album Era. For...
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Take ‘em to the Bridge: Visiting the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge
There are hundreds of bridges in Los Angeles County. They cross rivers, creeks, ravines, roads, train tracks, and other obstacles. If there’s a bridge you’d like to see me visit for this series, Take...
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Marking the end of an Eight Year Venture, or, My Final Post
This is my last dispatch for the Amoeblog. I started blogging for Amoeblog on 26 July 2007. In that time I created a few series for the Amoeblog: One Album Wonders (profiles of bands which only...
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California Fool’s Gold — Exploring Bunker Hill
BUNKER HILL The story of Bunker Hill is the story of at least three neighborhoods — maybe more. There’s the posh, Victorian neighborhood of the late 19th Century. There’s also the diverse, working...
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Happy World Monkey Day
Ferdinand van Kessel, Monkey’s Feast Monkey Day is celebrated internationally on 14 December. It was created by American artist Casey Sorrow in 2000. It began as a in-joke between Sorrow and fellow art...
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California Fool’s Gold — A Kern County Primer
California‘s Kern County is located at the southern end of the Central Valley — a flat, expansive valley that dominates the geography of central California. At its widest point, the vast valley is...
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California Fool’s Gold — A San Luis Obispo County Primer
San Luis Obispo County is a county in the northwest corner of Southern California, located along the Central Coast. The Central Coast refers to the roughly 600 kilometer coastal region between Point...
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Sandra Set to Perform in Anaheim and Dallas
1980s German pop star Sandra is set to perform at the City National Grove of Anaheim on 4 March 2016. On the 5th she’ll perform in Dallas. At both dates she’ll be joined by fellow German Eurodisco...
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Goodbye, David Bowie
David Robert Jones (8 January 1947-10 January 2016) My introduction to David Bowie was “Modern Love” in 1983, a song which captivated me for reasons I couldn’t understand. When my mom spied me watching...
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California Fool’s Gold — A San Diego County Primer
This primer, you’ve by no doubt gathered from the title, is about San Diego County, one of the ten counties that make up Southern California. San Diego County is a county in Southern California’s...
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California Fool’s Gold — A Santa Barbara County Primer
This is an introduction to Santa Barbara County, designed to pique the reader’s interest so that they’ll vote for communities to be explored in future episodes of Santa Barbara County. To vote for as...
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California Fool’s Gold — A Ventura County Primer
This California Fool’s Gold is an introduction designed to provoke interest in the communities of Ventura County. And, armed with a little information, please vote for as many communities of Ventura...
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California Fool’s Gold’s Introduction to Southern California
Pendersleigh & Sons Cartography’s large watercolor map of Southern California, including all major passenger rail lines. There is no official definition of what comprises Southern California but...
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